It’s finally here – The Diana Mini! After a long wait, everyone’s favourite cult classic, fantastic plastic cameras is now available and pocket-sized. Read on to check the Diana Mini’s crazy new features and reinventions!

Diana Mini: The Little Camera Destined for Greater Things!

More than a miniature Diana F+

Half Frame & Square Format, and more!

Shoot forever, 72 shots on the roll!

New Experience!

More than just a miniature Diana F+

The Diana Mini has big shoes to fill being the little sister of the classic beauty Diana F+. Luckily the “Mini” was born a star in her own right. Super sweet, the Diana Mini has got plenty of style and features to the nines. With the flick of a little switch you can move from the retro square format to the amazing Half-Frame, giving you the ability to Shoot Forever, packing 72 shots onto one 35mm film! Her handy-dandy size and limitless creative potential is a revolution in analogue photography.

Shoot Forever

Diana Mini Missions & Half-Frame Stories

Half-Frame photography allows you to take two individual pictures side-by-side and one after another on the same 35mm frame! Our mission to you is to get as creative as possible with this exciting feature and show us what kind of instant stories you can create in Half-Frame! Snap polar opposites like a cowboy and punk, or before and after shots of caterpillar to butterfly. Maybe create a drama with the image of a pair of bare feet next to the image of broken high heels. Who knows, the potential is only limited to your imagination. You can try to plan these but we fully recommend that you kick back and just shoot like crazy. This way you will have instant, unpredictable Half-Frame Stories to entertain you on the way back from the lab and to share with us on www.lomography.com!

Wow - half frame and full frame on the same roll. Now I don't have to spend hours on ebay drooling over the old Konica Auto-Reflexes that come up and always cost a bundle (and weigh a ton). I'd love to know how well it works - and what the neg looks like when you're switching between formats......

36 shots for sqare format? the same amount as 24*36mm.?
something doesn't right here.

normally a 35mm. sqare format camera (for example, tenax or taxona) can shoot up 50 shots per roll because each shot take area on film lesser than a full-frame camera, therefore less film advance for each shot.

If this info is correct. Is this the camera will produce a large unexpose space between each shot?

the camera has stops for square format and stops for half frame format... each square shot's stop is a full 36mm frame advance, leaving blank space on the roll between shots... this is necessary for film labs to be able to process the film in their machines... BUT, if you are someone who scans their own negatives, you can advance the film as much or as little as you want from frame to frame... you won't be following the stops, but if you get good at it, you won't need them... then you can get more shots on your frame and scan your own negative... so you have the option! :)

@mandashitely: You can also buy the Diana F+ Flash adapter which is much less expensive than a Diana F+ Flash and allows you to use any standard hot shoe flash.

@graefin: You can switch at any time, but if you switch after you have wound, you could end up with overlapping pictures - not necessarily a bad thing. Also, as soon as you switch in the middle of a roll you're pretty much committing to scan the negatives yourself or take it to a pro shop that knows what they're doing.

@kvboyle: The format switch does two things. It moves some shutters that make the opening the right size for either half frame or square format. Just think of those shutters in the phony panoramic cameras that chop off the top and the bottom of the picture, but these are upright. The switch also changes how much the film advance wheel will move the film before it stops on the next frame. Using the switch in the middle of the roll will mess with the spacing between frames.

@alexandrak: Turning the film advance doesn't cock the shutter. The shutter is always ready to fire.

@lomollete: You can easily multiple-expose. The shutter release button cocks and releases the shutter in one motion and you can use it at any time. Just press the shutter release and the shutter will fire.

@ gvelasco..i can't log on my yaho... hi gabriel...from what site did u get the flash adapter for diana?, i decided to buy the colorsplash flash plus the adapter for my diana mini. yet having a hard time to find a adapter. i wonder if they deliver here, in the Philippines.

I used my first roll and when I went to check up on my Diana Mini, I noticed that my switch where you can choose to shoot with half frame or square frame format was broken! Something was jamming it and stopping me from moving the switch. Any help? :(

Houston-based photographer Tamara Lichtenstein, always carried a camera by her side so she could capture every single moment in her life. Day by day, photography grow out of being just a hobby and it became her true calling

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